Economics Design

Today, we have a guest on our episode, Simon de la Rouviere. He's known to start talking actively about bonding curves and it's making a huge impact to the future that we are building — #DeFi and crypto.

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What is Ampleforth? What is supply elasticity? Why do I have more tokens and suddenly less tokens? Where does Ampleforth come in, in the #DeFi space? How does Ampleforth work?! I don't understand Ampleforth!

Fret not, let's start Season 2 with a deep dive and case study of Ampleforth, using the Economics Design framework for tokens.

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We've covered about bonding curves and the various incentive mechanisms that you can bake into the curve. This episode, we focus on using bonding curve as a way to fundraise for your project.

Fundraising with tokens doesn't always mean that the token is a security. It can also be a utility. Here, we share 4 use-cases of how bonding curves are used in fundraising. Unlike autonomous market maker, there is no general model to follow.

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In Part 1, we covered the basics of token bonding curves and understand how the shape of the curve affects the incentive mechanism.

In this episode, we look into the application of token bonding curve in decentralised exchanges, DEX. Specifically, the use case of Autonomous Market Maker.

We dive into 4 case studies: Bancor, Uniswap, Balancer, Curve

The concept of token bonding curve in this 4 DEXes are the same. But the application of how the token bonding curve algorithm is built is different. So we uncover the 4 various algorithms used in the 4 different token bonding curves.

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This is a 2-part series. Part 1 is on the economics and math of TBC and how the curve functions affect the incentive mechanism and what governance can we embed into the function. Part 2 will be on using these functions in projects, and taking a dive at a few projects.

The episode is split into 2 because it gets quite heavy to digest all the information at once. So part 1 is the more math-y part, for you, as economics designers to grasp. And part 2 is the more application-y part, for you, as economics designers to know how to use it. After all, knowledge is only valuable when applied.

Enjoy this first part. We understand token bonding curves, the benefits, where the value accrual is derived from and the various functions to consider.

As much as I wish there is 1 perfect function, the functions really depend on the objective of your system and what it wants to incentive or govern. So choose wisely and have fun playing with graphs!

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In this episode, we interview Arthur Cheong, a DeFi investor. He's on Twitter as @Arthur_0x. From the perspective of an investor, who invests in tokens and token projects, we uncover what are the key aspects in token economics that he is concerned with. He also shared his top 3 projects with good token economics, opinions on yield farming and advise when designing tokens. 

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Alright listen up guys. Now is the best time for #STONKS.

Memes aside, new token design are constantly entering the space. As DeFi continues to mature, I think we will start to see more sophisticated tokenised products with mathematical programmable rules embedded in them. How is now not the best time to be alive!

This episode, we dive into leveraged tokens. Using the token economics framework, we uncover the economics behind leveraged tokens, using #FTX as an example. Some simple math are involved. But don't worry. It's all fun and games.

Caution: this is a high risk product! Don't stonk your lives away ok.

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Yield farming is all the type right now. We talked about the international gold (bitcoin) standard and this week, on farming. I guess history really repeats itself! This week, we share about 4 projects using yield farming, and breaking down the economics of yield farming and token design. Whilst yield farming is a great way for your project, consider the bad and ugly too, if you decide to implement it in your project.

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We've talked about how bitcoin accrues value. Now, here's why bitcoin will only remain as a P2P currency but never play a role in the international monetary order.

In this episode, we will understand the various international monetary order, the lessons learnt and what does it mean for an international monetary order moving forward. And in this process, figure out where #Bitcoin plays a role and how it is possible to have a small part of the international monetary order.

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You've probably heard enough about the whole argument of "money used to be gold". In this episode, we will uncover the fundamentals of how money accrues value from 2 perspectives — metallism and chartalism.

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